PORTLAND, Ore. — There's a new building on the Portland State University (PSU) campus that honors the people who were displaced and died in the Vanport flood in May 1948. Edward Washington works with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Today marks 75 years since a deadly flood devastated parts of what is now north Portland. 15 people were killed and 18,000 were left homeless in the Vanport flood. Vanport was built ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — This week marks the anniversary of the 1948 Vanport flood, an event that killed 15 people and displaced thousands of others from a culturally diverse city that was built in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — At its peak, more than 40,000 people called Vanport home during the World War II era. Vanport students, including Eva Red Bird’s grandma, in a school yearbook before the May ...

This content was produced in partnership with Fuego Fino and Vanport 1948. Once the second largest city in Oregon, bustling and lively, Vanport had scores of businesses, including schools, a police ...

74 years ago today, what was once Oregon’s 2nd largest city was erased from the map in hours. If you’ve never heard of the Vanport Flood, read on…it only happened 5 miles from downtown Portland. I ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — This month marks 75 years since the deadly Vanport flood in what is now North Portland. Once Oregon's second largest city, Vanport was a diverse community in a time when many of its ...